NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Fleury, Katherine
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4869. This study aims to support evidence-informed policy changes in the future by identifying best practice responses to COVID-19 and the processes through which they were created in Canada’s Northwest Territories, understood in a matter that is reflective of the values held by community stakeholders. This project will see...

Principal Investigator: McLean, Sarah C
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4858. The objective of the project is to conduct environmental monitoring of wildlife (incidental observations only), vegetation, air quality, hydrology, and aquatics in the Snap Lake study area. Methods used are outlined in the management and monitoring plans (aquatic effects monitoring program, water management plan [s...

Principal Investigator: Logie, Carmen
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4827. The objectives of this research are to build capacity and leadership in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and research among Northern and Indigenous youth in the NWT; and, to evaluate the effect of arts-based HIV prevention programs on Northern and Indigenous youth’s HIV and sexually transmitted infection ...

Principal Investigator: Linden, Brooke
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4799. The purpose of the current project is to conduct a cross-Canada, multi-site release of the Post-Secondary Student Stressors Index (PSSI). This study will take the form of a longitudinal, cross-Canada, multi-site release of the PSSI. This will allow us to further evaluate the tool in a larger sample with broad regional...

Principal Investigator: Blowes, David W.
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4769. The objectives of this project are to provide critical insights into the potential long-term water quality impacts that may arise from waste-rock weathering; to develop scaling relationships to predict contaminant release, transport, and attenuation in the field; and to inform closure-cover design to mitigate the gene...

Principal Investigator: Napier, Kyle William
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4797. The goal of this project is to addresses the need for Dene leading their own Dene education through collaborative community work. The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct an interview with participants to discuss Dëné Dédliné Yati?´, and Dëné ways of living and learning. Interviews will be held with Dëné in the...

Principal Investigator: Palmer, Mike
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4829. The objective of this project is to gain a better understanding of the current state of mining related contaminants in local berries and garden produce in the Yellowknife area and to determine the potential risk to human health associated with the consumption of these local food sources. Specifically, this project ...

Principal Investigator: Yurris, Christopher Keith
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4795. The main goal for this research project is to determine whether the newly introduced midterm review in the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly has been an effective mechanism for governmental accountability which has thus been reflective in subsequent elections. This research will contribute to good governa...

Principal Investigator: Fiess, Kathryn M
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4819. The objective of the project is to develop reliable approaches to estimate the geothermal potential of flooded mines, using the Con Mine as a field example, and contributing to the development of renewable energy alternatives to the benefit of the Northwest Territories. The geothermal potential of a flooded mine mostl...

Principal Investigator: Schober, Kelsey
Licensed Year(s): 2020
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4612. Oil has driven migration, community growth, and governance of the last century in the Arctic. However, as Arctic global warming surpasses 1°C with “profound consequences”, the relationship between oil and climate change becomes increasingly contentious and impossible to ignore. In light of this tension, my research as...